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Millenarianism and Messianism in Early Modern European Culture

Volume III: The Millenarian Turn: Millenarian Contexts of Science, Politics and Everyday Anglo-American Life in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

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  1. James E. Force

    1. University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA

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    1. University of California, Los Angeles, USA

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. The Appropriation of Joseph Mede: Millenarianism in the 1640s

    • S. Hutton
    Pages 1-13

  3. Britain and the Beast: The Apocalypse and the Seventeenth-Century Debate About the Creation of the British State

    • A. H. Williamson
    Pages 15-27

  4. A Whig Apocalypse: Astrology, Millenarianism, and Politics in England During the Restoration Crisis, 1678–1683

    • W. E. Burns
    Pages 29-41

  5. Robert Boyle on Knowledge of Nature in the Afterlife

    • M. J. Osler
    Pages 43-54

  6. Robert Boyle, the Conversion of the Jews, and Millennial Expectations

    • J. Wojcik
    Pages 55-65

  7. The Virgin, the Dynamo, and Newton’s Prophetic History

    • J. E. Force
    Pages 67-94

  8. “The Mystery of this Restitution of All Things”: Isaac Newton on the Return of the Jews

    • S. Snobelen
    Pages 95-118

  9. The Occult Bible: Hebraic Millenarianism in Eighteenth-Century England

    • D. S. Katz
    Pages 119-132

  10. David and Goliath: Jewish Conversion and Philo-Semitism in Late-Eighteenth-Century English Millenarian Thought

    • J. Fruchtman Jr.
    Pages 133-144

  11. Caveat Emptor: Pre- and Postmillennialism in the Late Reformation Period

    • R. Smolinski
    Pages 145-169

  12. The Eschatology of Everyday Things, England, 1600–1800

    • H. Schwartz
    Pages 171-180

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 181-198
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Thanks to the work of legions of scholars, the millenarian expectations within large segments of the population in Cromwellian England have been carefully examined. The widespread belief that England, with its messianic leader 1 Cromwell, heralded the millennium is well known. Less well examined, perhaps, has been the cultural conceptions of the role of millenarian and messianic ideas in the "long" eighteenth century. Especially during the stable Hanoverian era - until the American and French Revolutions - the common­ place millennial expectations of the English Civil War appeared to recede. By the end of the eighteenth century, with the Napoleonic wars, millenarian views and interpretations underwent a minor renaissance but with nothing like the fervor, it is commonly thought, of the Puritan era when so many believed that the end was near. By the end of the eighteenth century, so the "official" story goes, the religious sceptics and deists of Enlightened England such as David Hume had done too well their work of tarring such religious radicalism with the brush of "enthusiasm. " Happily, this "official" interpretation of the events of the early modern period - in which scholars have too often taken their cue from writers such as Hume and simply ignored millenarian contexts and expectations in the Age of Reason - has undergone a marked shift in the past twenty years.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA

    James E. Force

  • University of California, Los Angeles, USA

    Richard H. Popkin

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